Joe Bruno trial Day Seven: the business manager of a Saratoga County plumbers union testified that Bruno recommended Wright Investment Services -- and didn't mention that he was a consultant for the firm. The union also got two state grants, perhaps at Bruno's discretion, around the time it invested $4 million with Wright -- and the timing of those came up yesterday during testimony by state Senator Betty Little. After one of Bruno's attorneys tried to introduce five years of member items as evidence, Judge Gary Sharpe scolded both sides. "This trial has lost its way for a long time. This is not an election campaign," he said. [Troy Record] [TU] [Fox23] [NYT]

The Army says "the facts and circumstances" surrounding the death of Colonie soldier Amy Seyboth Tirador in Iraq are "still under investigation." The military has called Seyboth Tirador's death "non-combat-related" -- her family has been telling the media that she was shot in the back of the head on a base in Kirkush. [TU]

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The Fort Orange Club cares for no history except it's own. They've already torn down a fine 1905 Arts and Crafts house and gained a grand total of six parking spaces. As long as they can continue to host the upper crust of society nothing else matters.

Americans have had the best of both worlds for awhile now (low taxes, good services) but our lifestyle and the expectations of what 'the good life' is need to change to adapt to the future. You get what you pay for, America, the sooner we realize this the better!

@ Eric : I tend to agree. In the round of hearings when the club was granted the variance to expand, the counsel tried to tell the public the club ' would return to it's stand-alone' opulence, to be veiwed as it was meant to be, un-encroached bu other buildings." BS. When the land was plotted, before the club was built, there were several lots next to the club. Several buildings were torn down for the AES building, and the building on the lot you mention was torn down years ago.

If the club's "founding fathers" really intended for the building to stand as intended, they would spin in their graves to hear we've torn down useful buildings to construct a parking lot.

I know there's been some frustration over the h1n1 vaccine shortage.. Albany country residents can register TODAY (November 12th) for a vaccine clinic at the Times Union center this Sunday from 10am-7pm. I just registered my toddler. 447-4505
It's free.

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